Sunday, June 16, 2013

iOS 7 Vs Android 4.2 Vs Windows Phone 8 Vs BlackBerry 10 Comparison

Apple officially released iOS 7, and declared it to come with “Biggest Change Since the Original iPhone”.
By checking what’s new in iOS 7, we could easily get the right point of iOS 7,
like the multitasking preview, Control Center, AireDrop, etc. iOS 7 is creating a great buzz for it in the gadgets’ world as the redesigning of the OS has not only excited the Apple users, but the competitors of the operating system too are feeling the threat. These changes are
more cosmetic and iterative than they are groundbreaking.

While some say that iOS is an explicit copy of Windows Phone OS as well as from Android’s Jellybean OS, it has become tough for Apple to give out clarification. With Google keenly looking at the iOS 7, it seems like the next version of Android will surely be different from what we saw till now.

Rumors are doing the rounds that the next version of Android will also be supporting the low end devices. In recent Android OS version, Jellybean 4.1 – 4.2.2 didn’t see many changes in terms of UI /UX and almost looked same.

Below, you'll find a list of the iOS 7 features that Apple
focused on today, and next to that, a brief description of how that trait
exists on Android, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry
rivals (or at least one manufacturer's take on said platform). Read on below
for more detail about how iOS 7 stacks up.

iOS 7

Android 4.2

Windows Phone 8

BlackBerry 10

Control Center

Varies by Manufacturer

No Settings Menu

Access to System Settings is Possible

Notification center

Detailed notifications

Live tilebadges

BlackBerry Hub, badges

Multitasking preview

Recently Used List

Multitasking preview

Active Frames grid

Surfaced camera modes

Varies by Android skin

Third-partylenses

Video, Time Shift modes

Photos grouped byyears, location

Albums, other filters

Albums, date

Albums, recent

Shared photo stream

Select Android Devices have it

Share one by one

Share one by one

Peer-to-peer sharing (AirDrop)

Android Beam (NFC)

Tap + Share (NFC)

NFC sharing

Unified browser bar

Yes

Yes

Yes

Personalized radio/discovery

Google Play Music All Access

Nokia Music

Third-party app

Voice access tosystem settings

Samsung’s S Voice

No systems access

No systems access

Automatic app updates

Update All & Individual App Update option

‘Update all’ option

Individual

Password-protectedreset

No

No

No

In-dash integration(iOS for cars)

Driving mode/S Drive

Nokia Drive

Third-party apps

iCloud Like Service

No

No

No

Actually, there's a lot in iOS 7 that we've seen before in
other mobile platforms, in similar if not identical forms. There's absolutely
nothing wrong with that so long as Apple executes well and brings value to the
user. The difference is that Apple's most advertised iOS 7 software additions
either play catch-up or are relatively minor, like a way to filter apps for
kids or surface camera settings in the app's top layer.

Apple does push the industry forward with some capabilities
that are all its own -- like iOS 7 for
cars and using Siri to toggle system
settings. (Samsung's S Voice does the latter, but not Android Voice
Actions.) Even with driving modes for individual handsets, such deep car
integration will be tough for the others to beat and even match without strong
automotive partnerships.

iTunes Radio may
not be a new concept, but I like that it's free for everyone, and integrated
into a native app that people already use. Google
Play Music All Access does about the same, but costs $10 per month, and
Nokia Music is free, but only on Nokia's Windows phones.

Once again, Apple's advantage is that iOS 7 will be unified
across most Apple smartphones and tablets, unlike Android, which varies greatly
by phone-maker and has a notorious track record for timely updates across
devices. Even Windows Phone has two flavors; that profits Nokia, the originator
of most extra features, but also makes Windows Phone's benefits uneven across
the entire portfolio.

Apple may not have bowled us over with headline
enhancements, but iOS 7 will continue to formidably challenge Google,
Microsoft, and BlackBerry with its eye-catching visual design and its total
haul of features, new and old. Like many things worth admiring, iOS 7 is
greater than the sum of its parts.